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The Sound Recording Amendment of 1971 extended federal copyright to recordings fixed on or after February 15, 1972, and declared that recordings fixed before that date would remain subject to state or common law copyright. Subsequent amendments had extended this latter provision until 2067. [50]
Sound recordings fixed and published on or after February 15, 1972, and before 1978, which did not carry a proper copyright notice on the recording or its cover entered the public domain on publication. [16] From 1978 to March 1, 1989, the owners of the copyrights had up to five years to remedy this omission without losing the copyright. [17]
The Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 (AHRA) amended the United States copyright law by adding Chapter 10, "Digital Audio Recording Devices and Media". The act enabled the release of recordable digital formats such as Sony 's Digital Audio Tape without fear of contributory infringement lawsuits.
The performance right for sound recordings under the DPRA is limited to transmissions over a digital transmission, so it is not as expansive as the performance right for other types of copyrighted works. [3]
Mitch Glazier, CEO of the music industry trade group the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), said that the lawsuits "document shameless copying of troves of recordings in order to ...
Music Modernization Act (MMA) of 2018 – Modernized copyright-related issues for music and other audio recordings to address technological developments such as digital streaming. Title II of the MMA, the CLASSICS Act, preempted state copyright laws for sound recordings made before February 15, 1972.
Recordings published 1923–1946 have 100-year copyright terms, and those published 1947–1956 have 110-year terms. [a] Recordings will enter the public domain every January 1 from 2024 to 2047 and from 2058 to 2067. [9] [b] All other recordings created before February 15, 1972, have their terms end on February 15, 2067. [9]
Along the way, Congress extended copyright protection from written works to movies, recordings, performances and ultimately to almost all works, both published and unpublished.